An Irish family have recalled walking past dead bodies as they fled Sunday's Bali earthquake.

Gillian and Michael Harvey and their two daughters aged four and one were caught up in the 7.0 magnitude tremor which struck Lombok, around 25 miles east of Bali.

Authorities have confirmed the tremor left at least 142 dead and a further 200 injured.

Opening up about the terrifying incident, mum Gillian recalled: “We were only out [of our accommodation for] 15 minutes before it [the earthquake] happened, we were so lucky we were not inside as some of the restaurant’s roofs had fallen down and crushed people.

Gillian Harvey (pictured) shared pictures of the earthquake on her travel blog Where Are We Going Tomorrow Travel (Image: Instagram/wherearewegoingtomorrowtravel)

“Then the aftershocks started to happen, we were concerned for a tsunami... Everyone was running for high ground.

“The only problem with getting to the hill was we had to walk through buildings and past all of the dead and injured bodies and that was horrible.”

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She also spoke about waiting to be rescued. She told ABC News: “Boats kept coming, small ones, and we decided they were not safe to take our babies on them. They looked like they were going to topple with the amount of people on them.

So far 142 people have been confirmed dead in the earthquake (Image: Riau Images / Barcroft Media)

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“After about 30 minutes in the heat and so much pushing, the baby was roasted as she was strapped to me I asked [the ferry staff] and he said: ‘I promise I will help you’.

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She described the family, originally from Dublin but now living in Perth, as "lucky".

In a post on Instagram she wrote: “Thankfully we were one of the lucky ones to get a boat out of the island today and are safely back in Bali , thinking of all those who died and that were injured and thank anyone that helped us along the way."